"Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress" is a sweet, touching book about a little boy who loves the tangerine dress in his classroom's dress-up center. The book is both praised and condemned for challenging gender norms but it is so much more. Baldaccino is not promoting a lifestyle. She crafted a story about an imaginative boy who simply does not understand the other children's reactions to what makes him happy.
The tangerine dress reminds him of all the happy things he loves; his mother, his cat, and his dream
